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† ˈnostel Obs.
Forms: 1 nostle, nosle, 5 nostylle, -tul.
[OE. nostle, nosle, related to OFris. nestla, nesla, MDu. nastel, nestel, OHG. nastila fem., nastilo masc. (G. nestel), of uncertain etymology. The Teut. type *nastil- appears in med.L. as nastulus, -ula, -ulum, nastola, nastale, -ile, and in It. as nastro.]
1. A band or fillet. (OE. only.)
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xiii. 76 [Hit] sceolde beon awriten..on ðæm hræᵹle þe mon hæt rationale, & mid nostlum [Hatt. noslum] ᵹebunden. c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 125 Fascia, nostle. Ibid. 153 Fasciola, nosle.
2. A short piece of cord fastened to a net; a norsel.
c1440Promp. Parv. 359/1 Nostylle of nettys (H. nostul), nastula, instita, nasculus.
Hence † ˈnostelling (see quot.). Obs.
Cf. MDu. nastel-, nestelinc, -ing.
1615E. S. Britain's Buss in Arb. Garner III. 630 Round about the head and two sides of each net, but not at the bottom, must be set a small cord, about the bigness of a bow-string, which is called [the] Head-Roping or Nostelling. |